Spencer Jones

The Seam

Six-Foot-Seven of Maybe — Three call-ups, three demotions, and not one of them about anything Spencer Jones did. He hits a baseball harder than anyone at his level and touches it less than almost anyone in the majors. July 25, 2026

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FlagshipSpencer Jones #PA-SJ · 2024 Bowman Sterling Prospect Autograph · 282 recent sales 7N ▼0.4%

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The rookieSpencer Jones #BCP-178 · 2023 Bowman Chrome Prospects Sapphire · 79 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

Spencer Jones hits the ball as hard as anyone we track in Triple-A — his EV95 of 112.56 sits in the 99th percentile of 504 AAA bats, where the median is 104.9. On the MLB value grid his contact grades at 0.60. The 2022 first-round pick out of Encinitas has 11 home runs in 86 MLB games this year, but 105 strikeouts say the approach hasn't caught up to the raw. Six-foot-seven and 240 pounds, left-handed: the shape of the contact is elite. Whether he lifts it enough is the question still open.

Note written Oct 8 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Jones's EV95 of 112.6 sits in the 99th percentile of the 504 AAA bats we track (median 104.9), and on the MLB value grid his contact grades at 0.60. Contact is what this board ranks and all it ranks — no name is held off it.

EV95 (mph)

112.56

xVal (MLB grid)

0.5987

Balls in play

123

Age

25

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.

2026 salary

—

Tax hit

—

Service time

0 yr 108 d

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2 / 3

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, New York Yankees.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of September 17, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.78M

Guaranteed

$0.78M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.

The Wire

▲ On the field: Spencer Jones is hitting .377/.424/.639 with 3 HR against lefties across the regular season and playoffs.

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The Bureau on Spencer Jones

The scouting press, in their own words